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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">239</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Children’s suffrage: the idea and prospects of implementation</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Children’s suffrage: the idea and prospects of implementation</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Grishin</surname><given-names>Nikolay V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Grishin</surname><given-names>Nikolay V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>nvgrishin@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff310" /></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Marmilova</surname><given-names>Yekaterina P.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Marmilova</surname><given-names>Yekaterina P.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>katyamme@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff311" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff310"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff311"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>75</fpage><lpage>81</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/4/article/239">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/4/article/239</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(37)/75-81.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(37)/75-81.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>In XX century a significant spread has the idea of ​​giving voting rights to children. The article analyzes the major projects related to the idea of children’s suffrage. Projects of children’s suffrage, carried out by their parents, are conflictogenic, violate the principle of equal suffrage, could undermine the legitimacy of the election. The positive effects of these projects to the demographic situation is controversial. The main cause of this idea is the factor of inertia of centuries of the spread of the suffrage.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>In XX century a significant spread has the idea of ​​giving voting rights to children. The article analyzes the major projects related to the idea of children’s suffrage. Projects of children’s suffrage, carried out by their parents, are conflictogenic, violate the principle of equal suffrage, could undermine the legitimacy of the election. The positive effects of these projects to the demographic situation is controversial. The main cause of this idea is the factor of inertia of centuries of the spread of the suffrage.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>electoral system</kwd><kwd>elections</kwd><kwd>universal suffrage</kwd><kwd>children’s Suffrage</kwd><kwd>Demeny Voting principle</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>electoral system</kwd><kwd>elections</kwd><kwd>universal suffrage</kwd><kwd>children’s Suffrage</kwd><kwd>Demeny Voting principle</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>